Has Wikileaks Become an Anti-American Crusader?

Remember when WikiLeaks first appeared on the scene? They were cast as a ‘greater good’ for the people. Whistle blowers could upload the dirt on bad governments or companies and expose their wrong-doings.

Then the whole Edward Snowden thing happened, that daring escape from Hawaii to Hong Kong, an espionage thriller in the making, and finally Moscow, where who knows what he gives up each day for his ‘freedom.’

Back to Wikileaks. First of all they claim to be a “multi-national media organisation and associated library”.

“WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world’s most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyse them, we promote them and we obtain more… This great library built from the courage and sweat of many has had a five-year confrontation with a power without losing a single ‘book’. At the same time, these ‘books’ have educated many, and in some cases, in a literal sense, let the innocent go free.” – Julian Assange,

So you would expect to see a site with loads of “books” from all over the globe. But head over to WikiLeaks and what do you find?

First up the latest CIA bust “Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed”, followed by “CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election” then “Hillary Clinton Email Archive” followed by a cracker from last year on 57,934 emails from the personal email address of Berat Albayrak, who is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Minister of Energy.

Scroll through to the NSA leak “German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits, the US involvement in ‘TISA – Trade in Services Agreement” then the emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and finally the DNC (Democratic National Committee) email archive and the pattern has become pretty clear.

It’s worth reading the comments posted during his live press releases on Facebook, with loads of cheering but plenty of distrust. ‘Fries my ass he refers to himself as the ‘editor-in-chief.’ As if there is any kind of impartiality or reportage to Wikileaks”  and “Just wondering who helped them this time”.

The question we need to ask Julian Assange is “has the Wikileaks agenda changed and if so what is it now?”

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